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To Risk It All: Nine |
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The Growing Mountain |
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Microsoft made headlines recently when the company surprised analysts and investors by announcing the most generous one-time corporate dividend in history. By paying out $3 per common share, or $32 billion to its shareholders, the company passed along more than half of the $60 billion in cash it had accumulated. |
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The Emerging Tri-Pol |
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Consider the big picture, as we…ve laid it out in previous issues of Trends:
꼑 The population of the developed world is rapidly aging.
꼑 The United States is the only advanced nation where the workforce is forecasted to grow over the next 50 years.
꼑 The populations of the EU and Japan are actually expected to shrink over that time period.
꼑 Even China is rapidly aging and the size of its workforce will peak around 2025.
꼑 At the same time, Latin America, India, the Middle East, and Africa all have young, rapidly growing populations of under-utilized workers and under-served consumers. |
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대면적 페로브스카이트 태양전지 효율 |
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2025년, 세계 최대 태양광 기업 중 하나인 "LONGi"는 대면적(260cm²) 규모의 실리콘-페로브스카이트 탠덤 전지에서 "33%의 전력변환효율(PCE)"을 달성했다고 발표했다. 이는 국제적으로 권위 있는 "NREL(미국 국립재생에너지연구소)" 인증을 획득한 첫 사례이자, 양산 가능한 대형 셀 기준에서 달성된 세계 최고 기록이다. 단순한 연구실 성과를 넘어 "상용화 단계로의 돌파구"를 보여준 중요한 이정표다. |
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Massively Multi-Play |
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In 2001, an unknown 38-year-old academic named Edward Castronova was teaching at Cal State University in Fullerton, California, and feeling like a failure. His career had never gone anywhere, and he felt like he was at a dead end. He was so lonely at night he just sat around and played video games. |
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